Pennsylvania launched its very first slot machines casino in 2006, followed by table games in 2010, and by 2012 The Keystone State had overtaken neighboring New Jersey as the USA’s second largest gambling market with revenues totaling $3.16 billion. Since then, revenues have fallen to $3.07 billion in 2014,...
April 29th, 2015 By Charles Washington
The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) first launched in 2005, and although 156 main events have been held during that time, the tour had yet to crown its first female main event champion. On Monday night, however, history was made after the Taiwanese born Michelle Chin took down...
April 27th, 2015 By Adam Brown
While Nevada and Delaware only enacted their interstate poker compact on March 24th, the pool sharing agreement has already had a dramatic effect on Delaware’s online poker market, with revenues rising by 26.39% to $43,636 in March, compared to February, and marking its highest point in 10 months. Online...
April 24th, 2015 By Shane Larson
While the US Justice Department targeted and shut down the country’s major unregulated iPoker operators in 2011, fantasy sports websites have managed to avoid the strict scrutiny of law enforcement and has since grown to become a multi-billion dollar industry. Nevertheless, while fantasy sports players place real money wagers...
April 23rd, 2015 By Charles Washington
Lock Poker has long been a blight on the online poker landscape, and over the past few years has represented all that is wrong with unregulated iPoker. None of the site’s unfortunate customers have been able to withdraw even a cent of their funds in over a year, and...
April 22nd, 2015 By Lucy Brown
In an effort to counter the Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) introduced by Rep. Jason Chaffetz to Congress in February, the Poker Players Alliance subsequently launched an online petition on the 2nd of April, 2015, entitled “We the People”. Its intention was to collect a minimum of 100,000...
April 21st, 2015 By Stephen Smith
New Jersey’s online gambling industry plumbed new depths in November 2014 after revenues dropped to just $8.74 million, but since then the market has been climbing higher and the state’s latest figures for March now represents four months of growth for the Garden State. According to the New Jersey...
April 17th, 2015 By Shane Larson
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